Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment

On April 13, 2012, Sister Helen gave a lecture and Q&A, hosted by Bill Quigley, at the Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment. The talk is in three parts. An Afternoon with Sister Helen Prejean

Like water going under and around rock

Sister Helen visited Duke Divinity School in January 2012 and spoke with Faith & Leadership. This video clip is an excerpt from the following edited transcript.

Witness

Salt and Light Television Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, has been instrumental in sparking international dialogue on the death penalty and helping to shape the Catholic Church’s newly vigorous opposition to state executions. At the age of 40, she realized that being...

Dead Man Walking Nun’s Journey Continues

Now that her story has been told in print, on screen, on the theater stage, and even in opera houses, Sister Helen Prejean finds herself looking back upon her Dead Man Walking experience with her upcoming book, River of Fire: A Spiritual Journey to Death Row. In it,...

President Obama and Pope Benedict: Conversation topics

President Obama met with the press before his visit with Pope Benedict on July 10. He talked about how he admired Cardinal Bernardine’s “seamless garment” approach to pro-life, that the cardinal included in its scope a wide range of issues -...

Keep the window open

Regarding Proposed Amendments to California’s proposed amendments to the lethal injection protocol, Sister Helen writes to Mr. Timothy Lockwood, Chief of CDCR Regulation and Policy Management on June 26, 2009. Sr. Prejean urges: All of my remarks about the...

Death penalty opponent Prejean speaks at UCO

The Edmond Sun By  Kathy Toppins EDMOND — Sister Helen Prejean, author of “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States,” spoke Tuesday night at the University of Central Oklahoma about her own walk from innocence to outrage as an...

A Conversation with Sister Helen Prejean

Naseem Rakha interviews Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, for Big Picture Productions and Capitol Community Television in Salem, Oregon. Sister Helen Prejean from Big Picture Productions on Vimeo.

Sr. Helen Prejean’s “Memo” to President-elect Obama

Posted by Paul Lauritzen The day after the election, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sr. Helen Prejean to talk to her about the election and what she would say to the new president about the death penalty in this country. As always, her passion for social...